tracery
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Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
The masons have now moved on to the North Cloisters, where they will spend the next four years restoring elaborately carved tracery and Purbeck columns, bases and capitals that have split.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2023
The interior is what I’d call “Victorian futurist”: glazed brick and tracery wrought-iron staircases and balustrades.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
The shifting facade mixed the ornate tracery of Gothic cathedrals, the slit windows and bulky turrets of Scottish castles, and the heart and plant shaped openings that are all Mackintosh.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2018
There they cut stones and tracery, carved capitals and sculptures in preparation for the return of the masons in the spring.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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